Watched Eight Days A Week tonight and loved it.. I haven't listened to much Beatles recently and this brought it all back..The live footage sounded fantastic. That little band really could cut it live.. I just wish I'd gotten the chance to see it on the big screen..

This June marks the 50th anniversary of the release of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club and in May they are releasing a super deluxe version, which will include new stereo mixes and a bunch of early takes. For the whole thing it will be pricey and considering I bought the Beatles stereo album box set (minus Let It Be, as I prefer the Naked version) and recently bought the mono box set, I'm a little hesitant to splurge. And funny enough, I bought the whole mono box set just to have Sgt. Pepper, as it was otherwise impossible to buy individual albums in mono.

Now I am interested in the new stereo mixes. As great, and superior, the mono version sounds, Sgt. Pepper is a psychedelic album, and it should have some trippy stereo mixes, so perhaps these new mixes will provide the best of both worlds.

Perhaps the most tantalizing element for Beatles aficionados is the word that Giles Martin and Okell created the new stereo mix with direct transfers from the original four-track tapes, rather than the two-track master that has been the basis of all previous stereo versions of “Sgt. Pepper” for the last 50 years.

Why so much attention to a new stereo version of an album that has been available in stereo for five decades?

In 1967, George Martin and the Beatles spent the vast majority of their time focused on the monaural mix, which was still the dominant playback format in England at that time. The group members by and large were not even present during mixing of the stereo version of the album.

Hence the new anniversary edition is an attempt to create a mix closer to what the world might have heard if the Beatles and George Martin had cared about stereo at that point.

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I know Im probably alone in this but Pepper is probably my least favourite Beatles album, after Beatles For Sale.. I know theres some great songs on it.. (tho I'd have prefered it if Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields had appeared on it as originally planned) but it dated pretty fast for me whereas their other albums havnt..

I know Im probably alone in this but Pepper is probably my least favourite Beatles album, after Beatles For Sale.. I know theres some great songs on it.. (tho I'd have prefered it if Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields had appeared on it as originally planned) but it dated pretty fast for me whereas their other albums havnt..

Yes, you are alone on that My husband is going to buy the mega deluxe version even though it's something crazy like £140 (or did I make that up)?!

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Sgt. Pepper is a great album. I remember my brother introducing it to me years ago. I instantly loved every song except for Within Without You. I’d skip over that one repeatedly. Still not a fan of that tune but when I listen to the album these days I just let it play through. Since the deluxe edition will most likely be featured on Spotify I won’t bother purchasing the cd but I can understand it being a must for fans. If it weren’t for Spotify I’d still be purchasing the McCartney reissues, of which Flowers In The Dirt was the most recent and a favorite. I wish they’d get around to re-releasing Let It Be on Blu-ray already. I’m sure there’s a lot of extras that can be included.

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How about a Beatles top five songs... It'd be difficult to pin it down to only 5. Ten would be tough, but let's be strict about this.. I'd be interested to see what we come up with..I'm gonna start compiling my list..

1 A Day in the Life2 I Am the Walrus3 Norwegian Wood4 Across the Universe5 Dear Prudence6 Two of Us7 Ticket To Ride8 Happiness Is a Warm Gun9 Revolution (LP version)10 Think For Yourself

A little light on Paul songs, but what can I say? It's not like I don't love a lot of his songs, just not as much as John's. (And, yes, this must be withdrawal kicking in. )

This was my top 10 eleven years ago and it looks good, but after the first two spots, there's a lot of interchangeability. If you follow my quoted post, you'll see a few spots ahead of it everyone giving their top songs.

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Ever since we had the discussion about Ringo's drumming, I've considered doing a top 10 Ringo drum tracks. I think it would go like this:

10. Come Together9. I Me Mine8. Strawberry Fields Forever7. Yer Blues6. Ticket to Ride5. Something4. I Want You (She's So Heavy)3. She Said She Said2. A Day in the Life1. Rain

honorable mention: Octopus's Garden

My reasoning: What I love about Come Together is that of all the covers I've heard, I've never heard anyone with the right touch and right timing. I just love everything about I Me Mine, the sound of the guitars, George's singing, and Ringo's drumming. Not really one of his very best, but it's a personal favorite. The drumming on Strawberry Fields Forever is just so awesome and so underrated.

The drums on Yer Blues are just awesome. C'mon. Ticket to Ride showcases how Ringo could come up with these unique drum patterns, and then stylistically just play it differently than anyone else. Something is pretty simple and then all of a sudden it goes into this wild middle eight segment. I Want You is a tour de force on every level, and Ringo's amazing drumming is there all the way. She Said She Said is Ringo being busy at a time when he was loosening up from his earlier days. There's always been something about the drums on A Day in the Life I've really loved, even when I was a kid, and as an adult I'm even more impressed with what he did in that song. And of course Rain is #1. It is Ringo at his finest, and I understand Ringo agrees with that.

As an honorable mention I included Octopus's Garden, because it shows how quirky and clever he could be and so effortlessly. The drums reminds me of kids skipping down the sidewalk. A second honorable mention would be Hey Bulldog, but I could go on and on with honorable mentions.

I enjoyed listening to Doug's video links -- Ringo is definitely underrated. I guess that's what happens when you're in a band with Paul McCartney, John Lennon, and even George Harrison -- someone's gotta be the bottom of the totem pole, and that happens to be Ringo most of the time. I'll be interested in hearing from Gant on this one.